closing a capture

[laurentperrinet]

I now know how to snap a picture, but still I do not know how to close the capture. is there any method such as cam.close() ?

[dashesy]

Does stop_recording not work? maybe it should be part of close.

[laurentperrinet]

I am getting this error:

see https://github.com/bicv/pyavfcam/blob/dd81f88fded0268a3f729eeaffae9a1435818777/capture_numpy.ipynb

any idea on that?

[dashesy]

stop_recording to stop a video recording. I think you mean to close the access after snapping a picture?
In that case I think you should just delete all the references to the camera, i.e. del cam. If no other reference exists the driver should be closed.

[laurentperrinet]

The driver is still on (the LED on the camera is green and lit) after deleting cam :

it stops if I restart the kernel.